October 15, 2023
Sonoma Film Institute Screening "Sansho the Baliff"
Darwin 102
4:00 pm
“In Sansho the Baliff, Kenji Mizoguchi’s style with its perfect balancing and harmonizing of sympathetic involvement and contemplation, reaches its fullest maturity. Few artists in any medium have achieved such mastery of technique, mastery of experience, mastery of self (three aspects of the same process.) It is the greatest movie I have ever seen.” – Robin Wood
The film won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
(1954, 124 min., in Japanese with English subtitles)
For more information, please contact Eleanor Nichols, nicholse@sonoma.edu